Music Announcement

1. There should be papers coming home for parents this week.

2. If you have any small boxes that could be holiday wrapped, nothing in them necessary, the winter music program is in need of about 40 for props.  Just boxes that could be easily managed would be great.

For Preston :)

This year, one of my rotations is writing. I have learned so much about writing from Mr. Thompson. We learn about writing with DOL, rules about grammar, and power boxes for organization.   

In writing, I work really hard to be successful. One thing I do well at is D.O.L. tests. D.O.L. stands for Daily Oral Language. Everyday, we search for the errors in the sentences posted on the board. The whole class makes the corrections in their notebooks. When it comes to testing time, he picks 5-7 of the sentences he gave us for practice and quizzes us. Although I can get stressed out taking the tests, my hard work pays off when I get to see my high scores. Most of them are 100%! Turning in my assignments is another area where I excel. Other than the times I have been gone, I have turned in every assignment. It’s a good feeling when I know I did my best and did what my teacher asked of me.

Although writing is a strong subject for me, I struggle with a few areas too. Using a stronger vocabulary is one way I can improve my writing skills. Word choice is important, but it’s challenging because it takes a lot of time editing and revising to find the right word for the right situation. Sometimes I get lazy and use my everyday language so that I can just get it done in class and not have as much homework. Another growing area for me is managing my time wisely. Although I turn everything in on time, it takes me longer than it should. When I’m easily distracted by my surroundings, it makes it more difficult to concentrate. If I am focused, I can write effectively and use my time efficiently.

Thank you for helping me with my struggles and congratulating me on my success. I am blessed to have parents that care about my education and support me.

11/4

Assigned today, and due tomorrow, is for students to explain the importance of each one of the quotes they put in their P2 boxes.  This is not just restating what the quote says, but rather the significance of it.  The quote likely is a result of the author's attempt to imply something for the reader to infer.  What do you, the reader, take from this?  Students had 10-15 minutes to work on this in class.

This needs to be done for all 6 quotes.

We will also have a DOL tests on Thursday since Friday is a 1/2 day.

The DOL Test will likely look like this:

would all the brave men a poem be all right to open our memorial day celebration

can you learn me and jane to speak like dr carson questioned sally

i, to, have just finished reading night visits john smiths long poem

mr handley the principal had spoke to our class on Wednesday

dear sue
im looking forward to our Visit will you have wrote jane and invited her to
yours truly
mary

 

11/3

Writing:

We went over last night's homework and gave some good examples of what was expected.  Tonight is to do essentially the same thing for the second emotion and then the quotes that supported it.  Students had 15 minutes to work on this in class.  You can find the short story HERE

Monday, Nov. 2nd

Today we went over today's assignment which is to group the quotes they have into emotions to support their reason as to "why" they think the princes chose life or death.  They need to set them up into powerboxes...just the power 1 and the 3 power 2s.  Students had about 10 minutes to work on this in class.  This should be a very easy assignment and shouldn't take too much time...assuming they have done the other work as well.